Check or other financial-instrument blank.



3O zontal line and at the foot of checks or other UNITED STATES P NT OFFIGE.

Louis S. ME CALFE, o 'NEW YORK, NY.

, CHECK OR OTHER,FINANCIAL-INSTRUMENT BLANK.

are. 850,388.

had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof. I My invention financial instruments}, and particularly to .that' class of bank-checks known as safety-checks. 7

The main object of my invention'is to pro? vide a simple form. of safety-check or the like I .in'which a portion of the check may be torn .-tens, ;hnndreds,i t I i thisis apttoa ijse confusion, fron which seriofl'gin orderto indicate by the part that" is --le ft an amount not exceeding thatfor which" the ch eck may be:drawn.

In most forms of safety checks' different numerals"v areIem loyed to indicate units, ousands, &c'., and from onsmistakes'may easily result: v jmy present invention thejvreatest amonntjforwhich the check may be drawn 1s clearly indicated by numerals and ciphers,

- numerals 1 arranged in the most readily understood ,j I-

readable inanright in horithe remaining which appear in columns there se ta e., reading from left to above.

In order. that my invention detailscheck eo istituting anexnbo inrent features'iii v v. .In the drawings, igure -l 1s a face vievv of a blank c heck embodying: my invention,

thereof and vw'i then point out the nove showing theisa ne attached to a stub. Fig; 2 isia similan ofthe check detached from the stub and'witlia portion of the extension removed,; the check-blank bcingl'illed out for an .ajmount f no t 5;. exceeding "the aniount appearing ontho extension.

' comprises as aivhole 'three portionsor body portion 1,-the stub2, and

The; check-blank shown in the drawings themain an a tenslon 3. 1 The'maifi or body portion of. the check 1 may be any ordinaryforln of check and the stub may alsh'jbe ofany desired clu'i ractelz. The extension-'3 is iu'ranged at lho right-haml end of the chcclg'lioing at that end opposite to the end at which the check is normally jattacl'ied tofthe stub, Printed" on relates to improvements in w l now proceedtodescribe in greatest $pecification of Letters Patent. Application. filed December 14 fifty-four substantially square row v contain ciphe lines: subdividing the extension preferably "comprlse perforations 'or rulings, so that .lz' atenteq n mle, 1907.

,19q5. Serial No. 291,703.

theextension 3 in a vertical line and close to the body portion of the check are the words Not over the largestantount. Substantially the reicainder of the extension is di 'vided' intolnine' horizontal lines or spaces, subdivided again; into six vertical rows. These lines and rows as subdivided comprise i s aces. The nine spaces contained in the rst vertical contain each therein the dollar-sign. The second rou containtherein the numerals .l to f'9,",While the ren'iaining spaces e rs, one in each space. The

portions of the extension comprising any number of spaces fro2n one to the total number. employed may be readilyremoved. .The chec'lcin tlllS form may be, made out 75 for any sum of money not exceeding ninety thousand dollars. By removing one l or more .of the lower rows [he sum of money not exceeding that for which the check may be drawn will be any amount in the .tcns'of 8o thousands in :u'cordance with the number of Thus removing three of the rows would leave the highest amount as sixty thousand dollars, \vliilereinoving eight of the rows would leave an amount not ex 8 5 ceeding ten thousand dollars. 'lhenunlerals 1 to 9 then-with'their ciphers in the complete blank represent tens of thousands of'dollars; but the said numerals may easily represent thousands, humlredstens, or units by: merely removing one or more vertical rows of ciphers. Thus lo run-love one ver tic'a-l row of ciphers would cause the nunuirt-Q.

als to represent thousandsinstead oftehs of thousands, and the removalof horizontal rows, in addition to the entire vertical 113W, would cause the largest amount to be just so many tlu'msands of dollars as is represented by the largest numeral rcnmining. i in Fig. 2 the five lowernu. .-:t horizontal rows have been removed, together with the j entire end Vertical row, and the larg' amount that this check may be drawdiQr four thousand dollars. if another veg a1 row of ciphers had been rmnoved froin the end of the extension, the largest amount would have. been four hundred dollars, and" similarly if two more rows had been remover the largest amount would bel'orty dollars and if all the ciphers had been removed the: largest amount for which the check could" have been drawn would have been fourdols 25 but one set of figures to read.

35 hand end thereofi lars. By removing all the ciphers and all the numerals but the top ones the check could be drawn for but one dollar. By the foregoing, then, it will be seen that a check 5 made in acerdance'.with my invention has a very wide range nainely, from one dollar to ninety thousand dollarsan d by merely adding one or more rows of ciphers the cheek,

may be made 'to cover any amount. For

1 0/ practical purposes a check which has a range from one dollar to ninety thousand'dollars is sufficient; v i i 7 By the foregoing, then, it will be seen that by the use of but a single set of munerals,

i properly arranged, together with accompanying, ciphers, I have produced a check which will properly indicate amounts within awide range, and that without any confusionor liability to error. Where dill'erent nu- 2o merals are employed to indicate units, tens,

extension at the right-hand end of the cheek,

because I- am enabled then more .eonveniently tovreinove successive ciphers from the ends of the rows of numbers in order to change the value of the numerals at the left- Jhe vextension may, se isposed, if desired,

' however, be otherw -While for hurposes of illustration I have shownz my invention as applied to'banh checks, it will be obvious that the same is applicable to other financial instrun'icnts, and, in fact, to "any blankin which varying amounts are to be indicated.

W'h-at lclahn is 1 1. A check or other financialinstrument' comprising a body portion and on extension, 5

the extension having thereon aigroup of characters comprising acolumn of ruznrerals lollowed by several columns of ciphers, the

individual ciphers ol the columns being arranged horizontally in lines with-the respec- 5o tive numerals. v

12. An instrument ol the class described having at its end and forming part thereof a rectangular group consistingkd the nine digits arranged in numerical-order in a ver.-

tical column. each digit followed 'by air-in- -delinitc nun-.lwr ol' ciphers .in a horizontal line, said ciphers terminating near an edge of the instrument whereby any or all'of the digits and ciphers are adapted to be conven- 6o iently reiji'ii've'd l'rom the rest of the instru-f ment in vertical columns or horizontal rows,

.or )arts of columns or rows the last of the ren'iaining rows expressing the sunrT'entioned in the instrument, or approxiinatmg that sum.

In witness whereofl have hereunto setmy hand this 13th day of December, 19.05;

. r JAMES vS. METCALFE, Witnesses: I 4

l l). lIOWARD HAYWOOD, ,LYMAN S. Annnnws, Jr. 

